We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTI am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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